The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia office recently traveled out to Bagerhat in Bangladesh, a key site of the program, to visit farmers and see how they work in the fields. This is an important aspect of the work, that the South Asia prog...
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[Field trip to Bagerhat in Bangladesh]
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Field trip to Bagerhat in Bangladesh
The area is marked by a high population density and limited areas for production, a landscape with steep slopes, various water sources and native forest fragments. There are also a variety of land uses, inlcuding: intensive smallholder vegetable production; smallholder maize, beans and cassava pr...
A partners meeting was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to discuss policies for agriculture in the South Asian countries, and networking. Apart from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) South Asia, all the CGIAR research programs based in South Asian, Agri...
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[Workshop on impact pathways in Dhaka, Bangladesh]
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Workshop on impact pathways in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Participants in the December 2012 Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers in Africa and South Asia workshop in Senegal visited the Kaffrine research site, where farmers received climate forecasts for the first time in 2011 through a CCAFS project.
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[Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers]
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Scaling Up Climate Services for Farmers
The CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa, Kenya Agriculture Research Institute (KARI) and the Ministry of Agriculture are working with farmers to support crop diversification to manage climate risk and to enhance resilience to climate change....
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[Crop diversification in lower Nyando]
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Crop diversification in lower Nyando
Workshop in Borana, Ethiopia. Part of the project: Playing out transformative adaptation in the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) sites in East Africa. Photos: Anton Eitzinger (CIAT)
In Senegal, farmers are actively using climate forecasts to stay productive and thrive under climate change. Photos taken 29-30 September in Kaffrine and Kaolack, Senegal.
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[Climate information for food security in Senegal]
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Climate information for food security in Senegal
During October 2012, the Independent Science Panel (ISP) and Program Management Committee (PMC) met for a week long conference. During the meeting a field trip to one of benchmark sites of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) was conducted. The trip ...
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[Program Management Meeting in Burkina Faso]
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Program Management Meeting in Burkina Faso
Tongo village's first well, which the women say is still fast and very serviceable. Photos taken from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research benchmark site in Tongo, Segou in Mali.